8mm Forum: The dreaded eBay strikes again!

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Posted by David Pannell (Member # 300) on June 19, 2008, 03:41 AM:

What's with this new eBay format which I just discovered this morning?

All my regular topics have disappeared from the drop-down search box, and the order of listing has to be re-set on each visit if you don't like the default setting.

The selection of regions has altered too.

Are they trying to lose business?? It has become more of a pain in the ass than ever to navigate quickly, simply and easily.

IMHO all these updates render the site less and less 'user friendly'.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on June 19, 2008, 04:56 AM:

Hmmmmmm....mine is the same as usual today.

If its the new Beta layout, you can chose to disable it. They pushed it on me a couple months ago. I went back to the old layout - there should be a link to this somewhere in the top right corner if I remember correctly.

-Mike

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on June 19, 2008, 05:42 AM:

Same here. No change is apparent.

Posted by David Pannell (Member # 300) on June 19, 2008, 05:48 AM:

Well! I wonder what's occurring here, then. There is definitely no option for returning to the previous format.

Is anybody else experiencing this phenomenon, or have I been singled out? [Big Grin]

Posted by Sam J. Clarke (Member # 1157) on June 19, 2008, 08:00 AM:

I got it ages ago and now I've got it again too. [Frown]

eBays news says that you can only opt-out for the next 4 weeks and then the old way will be stopped completely.

I think if they really wanted to change it, they should of done it slowly by adding little bits at a time. One big change will take a while to get used to. [Frown]

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on June 19, 2008, 09:56 AM:

Well, that is indeed bad news because I found it to be a royal pain in the ass to use when they foisted it on me a few weeks back.

-Mike

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